Herman Musahara

University of Rwanda · Department of Economics

This research examines 145 key papers from 1979 to 2020 in order to gain a better sense of how tourism demand forecasting techniques have changed over time. The three types of forecasting models are econometric, time series, and artificial intelligence (AI) models. Econometric and time series models that were already popular in 2005 maintained thei...

Using data from the AfroBarometer survey, this chapter derives measures of overall well-being for six Eastern African countries (Burundi, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique) for which enough data were available to take a broad enough view of well-being. Correspondence analysis is implemented to aggregate variables in each domain of...

This paper argues that the economic growth experience of several African countries and the Eastern Africa sub-region now generally constitutes an emergence. It is a necessary feature of a rising and shining Africa that has given cause to Afro optimism. Recovering from the scars of colonialism—subjugation, backwardness and darkness—and the post-colo...

Kigali has a population of 1.1 million and an economy worth RWF 2.0 trillion (USD 3.0 billion). Our research found that the total energy bill for the city was RWF 206.1 billion (USD 301.0 million), meaning that 10.1% of everything earned in the local economy is spent on energy. With 'business as usual' trends including rapid population growth, risi...

1 The average land holding at the house- hold level has dropped from 2 hectares in 1960, to just 0.7 ha in the early 1990s.2 In 2001, almost 60 per cent of households had less than 0.5 ha. The Government of Rwanda has recently completed a long process of developing a National land policy, which is currently being considered by a parliamentary stand...

In this thesis the author undertook a poverty and policy analysis. It is argued that it is important to understand the nature, magnitude and context of poverty before one can undertake an informed policy prescription. Existing theories of poverty, welfare regimes and social policies offer a lot of useful lessons for policy, but have limitations in...